So I always see a lot of answerers saying that they are RN's and their avatar shows them wearing a nurses outfit. So come on are you really an RN? Those of you that aren't do you think that they really are registered nurses and work in Labor and Delivery? I'm not judging or insinuating. I just want to know.
2007-05-27 13:20:43 · 9 answers · asked by I smile because of them ♥ 5 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
DMMLS: I don't know why you got so offended by this question and even left a response to it on another one of my questions. I was just asking a simple question because I was wondering if anyone was really a nurse. I'm no one to judge or believe whether anyone is telling the truth or not. Anyway, I was trying to offend anyone I was just asking a simple question out of curiousity!!!
2007-05-29 11:42:13 · update #1
I am an RN and I don't wear a nurses cap on my avatar because, guess what? When was the last time you saw a nurses cap?
I worked in L&D for many, many years and I will only help you when I know the answer. L&D, NICU, and postpartum or OB clinic, no prob. Other things, I would probably have to look up for more up-to-date info.
I do wonder why people answer questions when they don't know the answer, or give faulty information, especially in a health area. I have seen some doozies.
2007-05-27 13:33:42 · answer #1 · answered by Nurse Susan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What do labor and delivery RN's do? Neonatal Nurses(Labor and Delivery Nurses) assist with both the delivery of a baby and the period of time after the baby is born. They can do simple tasks like weighting the infant and comforting the mother to difficult tasks, such as assisting with cesarean sections other procedures. How many years/courses of college will I need to take? The best route would be to attend a nursing college to obtain a degree in nursing. That usually takes four years. Included in that degree would be a few courses in birthing care and the like. After that, one can continue college with a major of midwifery or neonatal nursing. Another option is to work with labor and delivery nurses to receive special training or shadow. How does it pay? The average starting pay for a RN is around 22 US dollars an hour. With experience, that can be as high as 40 US dollars an hour.
2016-05-19 03:53:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an RN, but I work in a related field. If you think about it, there are tons and tons of people having babies everyday, so there must be tons and tons of diappers to be changed - therefore, tons and tons of labor and delivery nurses. And if someone comes here and "pretend" to be a nurse, so what? They live in a fantasy world, and so long as they don't go on prescribing meds or harming people, I don't see a problem... :)
2007-05-27 13:29:00 · answer #3 · answered by _M0ni_ 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL I think absolutely no ethical medical professional should or should want to for that matter give out medical advice on Yahoo i think it's funny that people say they are Rn's and Doctors! I think you are a more credible resource if you have at least experienced things personally and know what your saying is true even if it's just true for you. However people should not substitute what answers they get on yahoo for the medical opion their own doc.
2007-05-27 13:32:11 · answer #4 · answered by Leesa T 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
From some of the answers they've given, I guarantee that at least a few of them are full of it and no more a nurse than you or me, _or_ American nursing education is crap. Your call...
Recently posted:
"Castor (oil)...
It DOES NOT cause the baby to have it's first bowel movement inside, called meconium staining...
Those are complete falsehoods... the meconium can be a side effect of labor, but NOT because of the Castor Oil itself.
Many midwifes still reccomend it for their pts to try...
Source(s):
Labor and Delivery RN for 18yrs
Ob-Gyn Office RN
Mom x3"
However:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3563790&dopt=Citation
"Meconium during labour--self-medication and other associations.
Meconium passage was more common in women who had recently taken castor oil..."
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2002.t01-1-01009.x/abs/
"Meconium passage was significantly more common in patients who had recently taken
either castor oil.....
I grant that those studies aren't reporting any cause and effect, just an association, but would you want a nurse you dealt with regularly in person to authoritatively tell you "Oh, the castor oil-meconium thing is a myth; forget it" given studies suggesting otherwise?
I'm suspicious of any "nurse" who can't even _spell_...
2007-05-27 13:24:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh poor poor kmennie... you are so sad and so so wrong.
I am in fact a Registered Nurse, a BSN...I am also Board Certified in In-Patient Obstetric Nursing, by the N.C.C. (the National Certification Corporation), also certified in Limited OB-Sonography... I have worked as an L&D RN for ALL of my 18yrs as a nurse...straight from nursing school to L&D. I also have worked for many years in a Perinatologists office (as if YOU even know what that is...) taking care of hi-risk OB patients..and assisting with hi-risk procedures, doing antenatal testing, NST's, CST's, BPP's (do you know what these are?), assisting with aminocentisis, etc.
Oh and I scrub in for c-sections, circulate... I do those things too...
I've worked in an Ob-Gyn office for about 5yrs now, off and on as well...
hmmmmmm... and someone like YOU has the nerve to challenge what I say and believe all of what you want to believe on the internet, just because you are one of those "anti" everything people (I am sure you are an "anti" Castor Oil)...until you've walked in my shoes, you know--the been there, done that sorta thing...don't you dare challenge me... cause I GUARANTEE I'd win in the case of Labor and Delivery...
so...AlmostT.. as far as "I" go, I just gave all of my credentials, believe it, or not...but I don't come online to lie... I am offering you and many others on here my medical experience, opinions ... I cannot, however, speak for anyone else and if there are others on here that lie, I pity them...
EDIT:
Oh and kmennie, if you cut and paste my posts from now on, cut and past the WHOLE thing, as I typed it out ... TIA
2007-05-27 13:47:32 · answer #6 · answered by dmmls 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I have seen 1 or 2 of them that make very logical and educated answers and would definitely think they really are RN's...However there are also a few of them that I am sure are full of it!
2007-05-27 13:26:29 · answer #7 · answered by moongoddess209 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
when you come on here and ask ??? you have to get what you get.no i don't think half the people on here are who they say they are i just like to get other peoples opinions and also give my own.
2007-05-27 13:24:49 · answer #8 · answered by l.clark79 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who Knows!!! It's hard to tell!
2007-05-27 13:24:55 · answer #9 · answered by Greer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋